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WAKE OF THE STORM Tornados leave trail of destruction

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A tornado that tore through Davidson County Sunday night left many without power and several homes damaged beyond repair. The tornado destroyed about six homes in the Valley Mobile Home Park on Sink Lake Road in High Point, and around five or six at the Chestnut Grove Mobile Home Park off Clark Road in Linwood. Tornadoes were also reported in the Welcome and Spencer areas, as well as in Hampton Park in High Point. Davidson County building inspectors and tax appraisers went out to look at the properties Monday to assess the damage and determine which houses remain habitable, says Sheriff David Grice. “Those homes that were affected were dramatically affected,” Grice said. “They were just devastated.” One mobile home off of Sink Lake Road was thrown into a nearby pond. The couple and the two children that lived in the home were still inside when it was lifted from the ground and had to swim out, clinging to a pine tree

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Heavy thunderstorms produced tornados that ripped through the county Sunday evening destroying mobile homes and buildings, uprooting trees and causing numerous power outages. Above, is the remains of a home on Clark Road in Linwwod, and below is storm damage in Spencer. that had fallen in the lake until rescued. Other homes ravaged by the weather were left splintered or had been picked up and rammed against other objects. Sheet metal still hangs from electrical wires, and tree branches lie strewn everywhere. The price tag on the damage is yet to be determined. Because of the wide-spread damage, assessments of the tornado’s overall impact is pending. “The nature of a tornado is they just touch down and jump up and touch down and jump up,” Grice said. “They’re just

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Town hall meeting hits hot topics BY ERIN WILTGEN Staff Writer

Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) opened the floor for discussion at his town hall meeting at Davidson County Community College Monday after a briefing on the basic issues the federal government has faced over the last few years. Watt, who represents Congressional District 12 — which includes Davidson County — touched on four major issues: the economy, health care reform, higher education and the importance of the census. “I know there are a number of people in the room who are here primarily to talk about health care,” he told the crowd. “I think it’s more instructive to talk about a range of things.” For his discussion on the national

When it comes to the recently passed health care reform bill, there doesn’t appear to be any gray area between Democrats and Republicans. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), a supporter of the new legislation, released a statement on Friday detailing how health care reform will benefit North Carolinians, both in the near future and long term. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill will reduce the national deficit by $138 billion in the first decade and by as much as $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years. In the next six months, 1.7 million North Carolinians without health insurance will have access to a doctor, 951,000 will qualify for tax credits to help pay for insurance, 1.4 million Medicare beneficiaries will have annual wellness visits and no cost-sharing for prevention services, and 247,000 seniors will receive $250 to help close the prescription drug “donut hole.” Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions or drop anyone if they get sick and ensures preventive services to all North Carolinians with no co-pays or deductibles. The bill also ends the “hidden tax” residents pay for the $1.4

were on the brink of an ecoeconomy, Watt took the audinomic meltdown that they ence on a trip back in time, believed would be more drawing a picture explainsubstantial than the great ing the behind-the-scenes depression unless we took government reasoning for significant steps and did so its response to the flounderimmediately,” Watt said. “By ing economy. that time, the American peo“I’m not here to try to deple had been in a free fall, we bate anybody about if the Watt just didn’t know we were in stimulus should’ve been a free fall.” done,” he said. “I do want The government responded you to know that there was an atthrough the Troubled Asset Relief mosphere in which it was done.” The story of the stimulus pack- Program, which injected money age bills began Sept. 18, 2008, when into financial institutions because members of Congress received dis- credit had locked up and banks had stopped lending each other money. tress calls from then Secretary of “We were in a lockdown situaTreasury Henry Paulson and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve tion,” Watt said. “Essentially, what Ben Bernanke and set up a series had happened as a result of the of conference calls for the various tremendous wealth loss is that the legislative members with their par- American people had stopped buyty and congressional leadership. “What they told us was that we See TOPICS, Page 3

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State unemployment continues to rise BY ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer February’s unemployment rate in North Carolina reached an all-time high once again. According to the North Carolina Employment Security Commission, the state unemployment rate climbed to 11.2 percent, as 8,596 people joined the more than half a million workers who can’t find a job. There are now 510,774 people in North Carolina who are actively looking for work without a job. “Our data shows how difficult economic recovery can be,” ESC Chairman Lynn Holmes said. “It’s going to take many consecutive months of job gains to get employment levels back up. We continue to provide job search assistance, employment insurance benefits to those who are eligible and many of our other services at 89 offices statewide.” North Carolina’s unemployment rate hovered around 11 percent since last May before climbing

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What’s happening? Holiday garbage schedule

The City of Thomasville will be closed in observance of Good Friday on Friday, April 2. Garbage and recycling routes will be altered as follows this week. • Today will be regular schedule • Wednesday and Thursday routes will collect Wednesday • Friday’s route will be collected on Thursday. If items are not collected on the printed day, leave at curb for collection the following day.

Vagina Monologues

Davidson County Community College presents Vagina Monologues on March 31 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in Gee Auditorium as part of its activities for Women’s History Month. Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery based on interviews with over 200 women about their stories of intimacy, vulnerability and sexual self discovery. Excerpts performed by students of Humanities 150 — American Women’s Studies course.

Easter egg hunt

There will be an Easter egg hunt for all citizens with intellectual disabilities at the new west campus of the Davidson County Parks and Recreation Department on Sunday at 3 p.m. The location address is 555 West Center St. Extension. There is no age restriction for special needs citizens. Siblings of special needs children ages 6 and under will also be invited to participate. The event is sponsored by the Arc of Davidson County, Special Olympics of

Davidson County, The Workshop of Davidson, Inc., Community Living Skills and The Davidson County Chapter of the Autism Society of North Carolina. For more information, contact Mary Ellen Cone, director of development for The Arc of Davidson County, at (336) 309-3622.

Females in the Military: The Invisible Gender Davidson County Community College instructor, Shante Roseboro, discusses her personal experiences of female leadership in the military on Tuesday, March 30, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Mendenhall 116 as part of its activities for Women’s History Month.

Fit and Strong exercise program The Davidson County Department of Senior Services Senior Dynamics program will offer Fit and Strong!, an award-winning, evidence-based physical activity program developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Research on Healthy Aging (CRHA). It is proven to benefit arthritis symptoms and promote an active lifestyle. Classes will begin on April 5 from 10:30 a.m. to noon and will meet every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a total of eight weeks. Classes will be held at the Lexington Senior Center, located at 106 Alma Owens Drive. Each class will consist of exercise and arthritis/ exercise education and discussion. The eight-week program costs $5. All equipment will be provided. Open to all Davidson County residents 55 and older. Advanced registration is required. Class size is limited. Deadline for registration is March 31. Fee due upon registration. To register, please call the Lexington Senior Center at 242-2290.

to create, print and save simple documents; learn basic windows operation; learn how to use a mouse and more. Also participants will be introduced to the World Wide Web and email. The 10-week session will run from April 7 until June 9. Classes are held each Wednesday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the Computer Learning Center of the Thomasville Senior Center in Suite 105. The center is located at 211 West Colonial Drive. The cost is $65 per person and includes materials and instruction. Pre-registration and payment is required by April 2, as space is limited. To register, call 474-2754. Open to all Davidson County residents 55 and older.

Davidson County Relay For Life meeting Davidson County Relay For Life will have a team meeting at 6 p.m. and a committee meeting at 7 p.m. on April 6 at Rich Fork Baptist Church.

Antique appraisals The Davidson County Department of Senior Services Senior Dynamics program has teamed up with Al Braye, Antique Appraisal expert, who will identify antiques, collectibles and art to determine their true value. The appraisal will take place at the Lexington Senior Center at 106 Alma Owens Drive on April 8 from 1 to 5 p.m. There is a $15 charge, which includes 15 minutes of appraisal time for up to five items per individual. Seniors must bring the actual item — no photographs. Appraisals are limited to the first 16 seniors age 55 and older who register. Appraisals are done by appointment only. To make an appointment, call at 242-2290. Fee is due upon registration. Registration deadline is April 5.

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March 28-April 3 April 2, 1982 The reported sink hole that developed on March 10 off Fisher Ferry Road may just be another hole. Its estimated dimensions of 25 feet wide and 15 feet deep set it apart from other holes. State officials say it is not a sink hole and that they haven’t been able to determine whether or not it’s a mine.

April 1, 1988 Jerry Everhart, a U.S. Postal Service employee in Thomasville, found what appeared to be a petrified dolphin beside a creek south of Thomasville. He called Dr. William Fisher, director of the South Atlantic Marine Research Center at Potter’s Point, N.C. The scientists found the rock-like formation to be a petrified porpoise, but disagreement about how and when it arrived in Davidson County remained. Those at Potter’s Point said the animal was left stranded eons ago when this area of North Carolina was covered by the Atlantic Ocean. But Rear Admiral Joshua Troutman said tests in the date and age of the object doesn’t reach back into pre-historic times. Troutman said that the animal swam up the Pee Dee and Yadkin Rivers 10 to 12 centuries ago.

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The Davidson County Senior Services Senior Dynamics program and the Davidson County Community College have teamed up to offer a computer basic one course . This beginner’s hands-on class will give new computer users the opportunity to learn basic computer operations and functions. Participants will learn

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The Davidson County Department of Senior Services Senior Dynamics program will hold a free informative workshop on planning meals in advance to save both time and money. This class will be held on April 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Lexington Senior Center, located at 106 Alma Owens Drive. To register, please call the Lexington Senior Center at 242-2290.

City Council members broke the ground for the Chair City’s third fire station. Mayor Jim Norton said he couldn’t remember the city financing the construction of a building of this magnitude since the Central Fire Station on East Main Street. The new fire station was set to be 4,800 square feet.

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FROM PAGE 1 STORM From page A5 very precise.� Some leveled homes stood two or three lots away from untouched houses. “I’ve heard people talk about tornadoes coming through,� said Davidson County Commissioner Chairman Dr. Max Walser. “Until you see it, you don’t really grasp it. There’s just so much debris and devastation.� The tornadoes came from a line of storms that passed through the county, heading northeast. Despite the massive damage to physical property, Grice reports that the injuries sustained in the storm were minor. Walser says that four or five people from the Clark Road site ended up at Lexington Memorial Hospital and a handful from Sink Lake Road were hurt enough to go to the

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ing, stopped borrowing, stopped building, stopped traveling — stopped doing anything.� The national wealth loss totaled $17.5 trillion between June 2001 and December 2008 as the stock market decreased and real estate market value dropped. And the wealth loss contributed to a $4 to $5 trillion drop in the economy. “The recommendation from the prior administration and continuing into this administration — if we are to get ourselves out of this bind — was to put money into the economy.� According to Watt, job losses have tapered since President Barrack Obama took office, leveling out closer to the numbers seen at the beginning of the Bush administration, though the Congressman said the charts presented were non-partisan. Instead, the data revealed the changing economy as a result of the stimulus packages first adopted under Bush in 2008 and continuing with Obama in 2009. Gross domestic product also has seen improvement over the last few years, dropping to its lowest at negative 6.4 percent

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hospital, but none of the injuries were serious. Walser declared a state of emergency at around 9 p.m. Sunday night, partly to allow the sheriff ’s deputies to forcibly evacuate any lingering residents in the mobile home parks and also partly because the affected families have a better chance of getting emergency relief. The ban was lifted Monday morning. Around 60 to 75 residents of the damaged areas were evacuated to North Davidson High School where a temporary shelter was set up in conjunction with the Red Cross and Davidson County Emergency Management, Grice said. The victims spent the night at the shelter and were released Monday afternoon. “Some of them are not going back to their homes ever,� Walser said. “There are five in Clark Road and several up at Sink Lake that no one will ever live

in again.� Even residents whose houses may still be habitable couldn’t go home Monday until the roadways were clear, said Doug Lowe, emergency services director of Davidson County. “We’re working to try to get as much of the roadways clear as we can and also mitigating all danger areas that still may be in existence,� Lowe said. Many residents also lost power as a result of the storm. Duke Energy reported a power outage for 4,238 customers in Davidson County Sunday night due to the severe weather. By Monday afternoon, 1,800 Duke Energy customers still did not have power. Other than the tornado, the severe weather included reported hail and .86 inches of rain between 2:40 and 10:40 p.m. Sunday, according to the Davidson County Airport.

in the first quarter of 2009 but back up to a positive 2.8 percent as of Nov. 24, 2009. But while the country has regained $5 trillion in terms of economic wealth, it’s a long cry from the $17.5 trillion lost. “We know the problem is still out there,� Watt said. “I think things are

people as well as a federal grant put into the finance agencies in five states, including North Carolina, to help stop ongoing home foreclosures. But even in the face of some successes on the economic front, many citizens — including a few present at the meeting — have voiced concerns that the year-long push for the health care reform bill has taken Congress’ attention away from the real problem at hand — unemployment. With North Carolina at an all-time high unemployment rate of 11.2 percent, some present at the meeting questioned the need for health care if they couldn’t put food on the table. Watt said that he believed it was not only possible but the government’s duty to address the problems simultaneously. “The notion is that just because we’re doing a stimulus bill, we can’t do the health care reform, which is a major burden on small business,� he said, “I don’t agree with the notion that just because we walk, we can’t chew gum at the same time.�

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turning around. Even as we speak, efforts are being undertaken to try to address the economic meltdown.� Some of those initiatives include a bill to give tax incentives to small businesses to encourage them to employ more

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LINES From page 1 billion spent on uncompensated care that gets passed along to families in the form of about $1,100 per year for people without health insurance. “With this reform bill we have reduced health care costs for families, seniors and small businesses for the long term, and families will have access to family doctors,� Hagan said. “We were headed in the wrong direction. The bill we passed controls exploding health care costs, increases access to care and reduces long-term deficit.� Republicans, while agreeing that health care reform was needed to a certain extent, feel the bill not only fails to reduce the deficit, but will actually cost far more than what their opponents are claiming once everything gets out in the open. “Our folks estimate it will cost $2.5 trillion when you add in all the hidden charges that haven’t been scored yet by the CBO,� said Ed McDonald, spokesperson for Rep. Howard Coble. “This is a huge discrepancy. They left a lot of things out that won’t come in effect for 10 to 20 years out. There are good things in the bill that we would approve — preexisting conditions and buying insurance across state lines, but the bad far outweighs the good as far as Rep. Coble is concerned.�

RISE From page A5 the past two months to the new record high. In the past year, unemployment has increased 59,997 people and employment is down by more than 89,000 workers. The state unemployment rate a year ago was 9.8 percent. The ESC is reporting that the labor force is seeing signs of recovery. “Over the last two reporting periods, we have seen a net increase in job creation, though during the current period there

Health care isn’t the only thing the bill addressees. Hagan had a major part in adding special sections to the legislation, including amendments protecting small farmers hiring seasonal workers for less than 120 days, creating a pathway for generic biologic drugs, addressing the shortage of doctors in rural communities and helping seniors follow medication regimens. There also are provisions in the bill affecting education. The bill invests $36 billion over 10 years to increase Pell Grant scholarships, $2.55 billion in historically black colleges and universities and provides $2 billion for a competitive grant program for community colleges, saving taxpayers $61 billion over 10 years by switching to a cheaper direct loan program. “This bill helps make college more affordable for our families,� Hagan said. “I am a strong supporter of investing in these higher education institutions.� McDonald doesn’t see how amendments like these impact health care reform. “They stuck the student loan program right in the middle of the health care bill,� said McDonald. “It shouldn’t have had any part of a health care bill. What does student loans have to do with health care? There has never been a major piece of legislation in our country that is so one-sided and partisan as this.� More is sure to come.

has been a slight decrease in jobs� said Holmes. “We are seeing an increased re-engagement into the state’s labor force with a gain of over 11,000 in February. While we remain cautious, this could be a sign that more people are re-entering the labor force they believe more work is available.� Manufacturing, again, suffered the most, as the industry lost 2,400 jobs in February while education and health ser-

vices gained 2,600 jobs. ESC spokesperson Andy James said the work force increase comes from several factors like new graduates looking for work, a person out of a job is trying to find a new one, housewives seeking employment, new comers to North Carolina and unemployment benefits have begun to expire.

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Health care overhaul tied to medical basics LIFELONG HEALTH

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Politicians have been battling the issue of health care overhaul for the past year, and frankly, resolution on the horizon is unlikely. Until our legislators can offer true solutions to curb costs, improve health outcomes and help every American live a healthier life, the responsibility to improve health care lies squarely with patients and physicians. In America, a significant fraction of health care is often excessive, unnecessary and too aggressive. Plus, there is a clear tendency to use more expensive, newer technologies over cheaper, older approaches. Controlling quality of care can go hand in hand with curbing the rising cost of care. Recently, some of the wisest advice has come from Dr. Howard Brody, a leading bioethicist from the University of Texas at Galveston. In an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Brody shows that the medical profession has made little effort to reduce health care costs, claiming that some medical groups have made their support of change contingent on continued reimbursements rather than quality care. Brody believes that the only way there will be constructive and viable improvements in our health care system is for physicians to take the “high moral ground� and direct reform toward improving the practice of medicine. To this end, Brody proposes a “top five� plan, in which every medical specialty would employ a blue-ribbon panel of experts to identify the top five procedures in their field — carefully defining the indications to justify each treatment. Once this is made available to physicians and the general public, it will establish a baseline of expectations, making it difficult for a single physician to recommend a procedure for which there is no benefit. By eliminating unnecessary treatments, physicians could save one-third of health care costs without depriving patients of beneficial care. Brody believes that “we may astonish everyone by changing the entire reform debate for the better� — I agree. The data is compelling that physicians can control costs. To better understand how cost of

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care can fluctuate, take a look at the regional studies that compare the annual price of health care in different cities and counties. The cost of health care is substantially higher in communities with physicianowned hospitals. These doctors not only profit from the care they deliver, but they also profit from tests, procedures and hospitalizations. In these scenarios, the physicians are more likely to treat patients with inappropriate, unnecessary and expensive health care. There is also evidence that hospital groups save money when they insist that care be based on sound scientific evidence of benefit. Brody also faults physician groups for blaming the costs of care on others. For example, the American Medical Association suggests that high costs are due to litigation and malpractice. While this is certainly a concern for physicians, malpractice plays only a small role in increased costs. Similarly, there is little evidence that high insurance rates are at the core of America’s enormous health care costs. Tighter controls might prevent excessive profits, but the idea that American health care can be saved by increasing insurance competition is preposterous. Yes, insurance companies play a huge role in health care change. But rather than addressing policy rates and competition, the insurance

industry should change the way physicians are compensated. Currently, doctors are paid by the number of patients seen and tests performed, which creates a terrible incentive structure. Reimbursement should be tied to quality of care, rewarding physicians for managing a patient’s chronic illness, preventing further disease and eliminating unnecessary tests. This is particularly important as Medicare plans to cut payments to doctors by 21 percent. This disastrous approach to controlling costs will either force primary care physicians out of business or intensify the already out-of-control tendency to do more tests and more procedures simply to make a decent salary. Health care change does not have to be complicated. We need not discuss government takeovers, death panels or health savings accounts. Instead, help physicians practice quality care and pay them well for having healthy patients. Teach patients that sometimes less is more and newer does not mean better. It is simple: Get back to the basics of medicine. To find out more about Dr. David Lipschitz and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. More information is available at www. DrDavidHealth.com.

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OPINION

Thomasville Times MICHAEL B. STARN Publisher mstarn@hpe.com • LYNN WAGNER Advertising Director lwagner@hpe.com

LISA M. WALL Editor editor@tvilletimes.com • ZACH KEPLEY Sports Editor tvillesports@yahoo.com

Don’t forget our hometown treasures VIEWPOINT

D.G. MARTIN N.C. Columnist Wachovia … going, going, gone. Wells Fargo is making their takeover a gradual one to ease the pain. But it’s all gone except the name, and it is fading away. It has happened before. Cannon towels. Ivey’s. Eckerd Drugs. Carolina Freight. Piedmont Airlines. McLean Trucking. Cone Mills. They are just a few of other great names have disappeared from our state’s landscape. It gives me a headache to think about it, which reminds me of other North Carolina names like B-C and Stanback that once represented prospering local businesses whose successes reached far beyond our state’s borders. There are other great North Carolina business names that still hang around even though the ownership and control has passed on to others, like Pepsi and Reynolds. We are proud of North Carolina businesses whose products and success become recognized across the country. They provided jobs for North Carolinians. So, as we lose those kinds of businesses, we are more open to the efforts of the governor and the rest of state government to persuade businesses to relocate or establish branches, manufacturing plants, distribution facilities and film studios in North Carolina. We need the jobs and it is a big deal when the state loses any business. But when we lose a big-time, homegrown, home-owned business, it is a really big deal. Those North Carolina old “homegrown” businesses provided much more than jobs. Their founders and owners usually grew up or lived here. Often, they generously shared their wealth and their talents to make their communities and our state better. They provided leadership for community and statewide improvements in health, education and infrastructure. They supported the kind of public investments that gave the state the building blocks to build a better economy and expanded opportuni-

ties for people to succeed. Thank goodness, North Carolina still has a host of homegrown businesses that give the state and its citizens good employment opportunities and a lot more. Belk, Duke Energy, Carolina Power, Lowe’s, Family Dollar, First Citizens, BB&T, VF, Harris Teeter, Lance and others like them have been around a long time. They are rich treasures that are worth fighting hard to keep here. More recently, companies like SAS and Quintiles have developed successful multinational businesses by building on a platform of talent, expertise, and intellectual resources gathered in the state’s universities. Having companies like SAS and Quintiles, the wealth they have created, the talents of their employees, and their support for the betterment of the state are assets that make other states envious. Recently, Vice President Joe Biden’s visit called attention to one of these companies, Durham-based Cree, a manufacturer of energy efficient LED lighting products. Biden came to brag about the $39 million in tax credits that Cree was getting under the federal stimulus legislation. The company has hired 375 workers during the last year. Biden praised Cree’s contribution to clean energy by developing a “more environmentally efficient way to light our world.” Cree’s original technology grew out of research at North Carolina State University. According to its CEO, Charles Swoboda, that relationship and the intellectual and social assets that have developed as the company grew are major reasons the company stays in North Carolina. What is the point of all this praise for homegrown companies? It is not that we should stop trying to persuade good businesses to open up operations here. We should go after those filmmakers and anybody else who will bring needed jobs. But we ought to spend even more effort to promote the formation and expansion of businesses that grow up here and want to keep on calling North Carolina home.

Change no one understands VIEWPOINT

ELIOT DUKE Staff Writer Confusion is defined as a complication, intricacy, difficulty, mistake, turmoil, disarray or pandemonium. Something is confusing when it’s baffling, puzzling, disturbing, unsettling or befuddling. A person is confused when something is chaotic, mixed up or out of order. All three apply to the new health care reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law last week. As the staff at the Thomasville Times attempted to dissect this new legislation in hopes of trying to make some sense of it, we found ourselves in a world of disarray, baffled and confused. Few people we talked to had any idea how this new bill would impact the lives of Americans across the country. We found few answers and, more times than not, more questions the more we asked around. For something so supposedly life-changing for millions of people, this is a problem. Let’s start at the top with the bill itself. For one, it’s nearly 3,000 pages long and I couldn’t find anyone who read even half of it. What I did discover was it appears no one has read this legislation all the way through. Not Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — two of the bill’s driving forces. The homework was left to

staffers and interns to go through without any regard to clarity or the right of Americans to know what is going on in Washington D.C. This is supposed to be the most important piece of legislation since Social Security and Medicaid, yet a week after it became law, details of the bill remain in the dark. What I do know is that the people who pushed for health care reform don’t believe in it enough to use it themselves. In one of the those last minute additions, Reid put in a special amendment that says he and his staff, along with others, can keep their current plan while others in Congress have to go into a new government health care pool. Another classic case of the government line “do what I say, not what I do.” More and more bits and pieces of the reform bill surface every day and, it turns out, a lot of the pieces don’t have anything to do with health care. There are provisions for student loans and research, for whatever reason, and the pork hasn’t even started sizzling yet. Here’s the problem I have with all of this. The unemployment rate in Davidson County is more than 14 percent, and statewide the rate exceeds 11 percent. There are 500,000 people who are unemployed in North Carolina alone, and since Obama has taken office, more than 4 million jobs have been lost in the United States. In the not-so-distant future, government officials will be announcing how broke they all are, forcing cities, counties and school systems to make gut-wrenching budget decisions that, in all probability, will result in further job loss for an already struggling economy. I don’t claim to be an economist and I don’t have the

answers. It seems to me the focus of every single elected official, Obama included, needs to be putting people back to work. Everything else should be secondary, at least for the immediate future. How in the world can this country possibly pay for any health care reform bill with so many people out of work? It makes no sense at all. People are struggling as it is. We don’t need higher taxes right now. Small businesses don’t need any extra burdens as they are trying so hard to keep what few employees they have left working. Does health care need to be reformed? Yes, and even Republican leaders I’ve talked to agree with that. Do we need the government to mandate that we all must purchase insurance or face a fine? No. In a time like this, the role of the government should be to help people get back on their feet, either through tax breaks or easily accessible low-rate loans for small businesses. Americans’ don’t need a governmentrun health care system any more than a government-run automobile manufacturer. If this legislation was so vital to the survival of the country, it would’ve been totally transparent, not voted on through reconciliation and rammed through Washington like a freight train. The whole thing stinks, and what makes it worse is that smell will be passed down to my children and their children. If Obama and the rest of Capitol Hill really wanted change, they would find a way to put people back to work. It’s not that confusing and would actually be a welcomed change. Staff Writer Eliot Duke can be reached at 888-3578, or duke@tvilletimes.com.

UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch returns to the air this week with a special conversation with Andrew Young author of “The Politician” on Friday, April 2, at 9:30 p.m. Its regular programming on Sundays at 5 p.m. resumes this week (April 4) with Duke Professor Dan Ariely, author of “Predictably Irrational.”

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OBITUARIES

Index Thomasville Louise C. Cecil, 81 Maxine Floyd, 86 Hobart F. Gullion, 66 Other areas Elizabeth Matthews William “Cody� Miller, 76 Donna E. Myers, 62 Mary T. Pittman, 91 Joel E. Williams, 83

Louise C. Cecil

Mrs. Louise Clonts Cecil, 81, of Thomasville and formerly of Murphy, N.C., died Saturday at the Hospice Home at High Point. B o r n April 14, 1928, in C h e r o ke e C o u n t y, Cecil Mrs. Cecil l is a daughter of the late Harrison B. Clonts and Georgia Taylor Clonts. She retired from Clarington Industries and was a member of Gospel Light Freewill Baptist Church in Thomasville. She loved her church and her pastor. Mrs. Cecil was preceded in death by her husband Odell Franklin Cecil, Sr. on March 3, 1999. Mrs. Cecil is survived by five children, Judy Loflin and husband, Thomas, of Thomasville, Tonia Cecil Lopez, of Sacramento, Calif., Randall Bryant, of Thomasville, Odell Franklin Cecil, Jr. and wife, Louise, of Bladenboro, and James Bryant, of Thomasville. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren and her puppy, Ginger. Funeral service for Mrs. Cecil will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Gospel Light Freewill Baptist Church with the Rev. James Shetley officiating. Interment will follow in Floral Garden Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends today from 6 until 8 p.m. at Cumby Family Funeral Service, in High Point. Online condolences may be made at www. cumbyfuneral.com. Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service, in High Point. ***

Maxine Floyd

Maxine Floyd, 86, passed away Monday, March 29, 2010, at her home in Thomasville. Maxine was born June 5, 1923, in Davidson County to the late Wiley and Frances Carriker. She was valedictorian of her Fairgrove High School class. She loved church (in circle 3) and sending cards to shut-ins. She had a good sense of humor and taught everyone to love the Lord and the importance of church. Maxine was very close to her daughter, Patsy. She is preceded in death by her husband, Ciscero Floyd; sisters, Ruby Tyler and Zona Skeen; brothers, James Carriker and Wiley Carriker. Maxine is survived by her caregivers, daughter, Patsy Coe, and beloved son-in-law, Larry. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 2 until 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church

in Thomasville. A funeral service will follow at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Chris Uren officiating. Interment will be at Holly Hill Memorial Park. Online condolences may be made through www.thomasvillefh.com. ***

Hobart F. Gullion Mr. Hobart Franklin “Bud� Gullion, 66, a resident of Thomasville, died Sunday, March 28, 2010, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Born Aug. 17, 1943, in Smith County, Va. a son of Dorson F. Gullion and Betty Mae Anders Gullion, he has lived in Davidson County since 1972 and formerly worked in the veneer business with Southern Veneer and Carolina Veneer. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at J.C. Green and Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Thomasville with the Rev. Michael Holbrook and Mr. Terry Nealy officiating. Interment will follow in the Holly Hill Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and other times at the resident. Online condolences may be sent to the Gullion family at www.jcgreenandson.com.

Elizabeth Matthews WINSTON-SALEM — Sarah Elizabeth Watson Matthews died Sunday, March 28, 2010, at her home. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Davidson Funeral Home Hickory Tree Chapel with the Rev. Tim Day officiating. A private family burial will follow in the Parklawn Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. at the funeral home prior to the service. Davidson Funeral Home, Hickory Tree Chapel is serving the family. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.

William “Cody� Miller GREENSBORO — William Coda “Cody� Miller, 76, of Greensboro, born Dec. 3, 1933, passed away March 27, 2010. Funeral service will be held on T hursday at 2 p.m. at Hanes Miller Lineberry Sedgefield Chapel, 6000 High Point Road, Greensboro, with a military graveside service to follow at Guilford Memorial Park, Greensboro. Friends may visit on Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

He was preceded in death by his parents, George A. and Gwendolyn M. Miller; and his brother-in-law, Ronald Griffin. His immediate survivors are his wife of 35 years, Sandra B. Miller; and his sister, Ramona Griffin. His is also survived by his daughters, Jenay McDaniel and husband, Brandon; Betsy Gaines and husband, Ronnie; Cathy McCarty and husband, Richard Phillips; Cindy Bowman and husband, Spencer Smith; Susan Curd and husband, David; son, Steve Jones and wife, Carla; and grandchildren, Lucas Miller McDaniel; Christy Bullins; Lee Jones; Mitchell Jones; Connor Jones; Ryan Curd; and Megan Curd. He graduated from Curry High School in 1952, where he lettered in both basketball and football, and he attended Elon College before serving in the military during the Korean War in the 82nd Airborne, where he was stationed in Fort Bragg and Fort Knox. He had a 40-year career in the glass business. His hobbies included coin collecting, family genealogy, civil war history and cooking, with his specialty for biscuits. He enjoyed watching college sports, especially Duke basketball, and frequently visited Aldi and Costco. However, his most cherished hobby was taking care of and spending time with his family, and he will be deeply missed by his family and many friends. Memorials may be made in his memory to the Hospice & Palliative Care Unit at Moses Cone Hospital. On line condolences may be made to www.haneslineberryfhsedgefield.com. ***

Donna E. Myers WINSTON-SALEM — Mrs. Donna Emerson Myers, 62, a resident of Tom Livengood Road, died Thursday, March 25, 2010, at her home. Born in Elkin on Aug. 29, 1947, to Howard Clay and Mildred Gregory Emerson, she was a Baptist and had attended Lexwin Baptist Church. Graveside service will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Danny Hauser officiating. The family will receive friends on Monday from 6 until 8 p.m. at J.C. Green and Sons Funeral Home in Wallburg. Online condolences may be made at www.jcgreenandsons.com.

Mary T. Pittman WINSTON-SALEM — Mrs. Mary T. Pittman, 91, died Sunday, March 28, 2010, at Lexington Health Care Center. She was born on May

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Joel E. Williams HIGH POINT — Mr. Joel E. Williams, 83, resident of 806 W. Parkway Ave., entered his eternal home T hursday evening at the Hospice Home. He was surrounded by family and many cherished Williams friends in the days preceding his death. His gracious and generous spirit will be greatly missed. Mr. Williams was born Dec. 3l, l926, in High Point, a son of Alexander Eugene and Hazel Trogdon Williams. Joel graduated as Valedictorian from Trinity High School, where he received the Braxton Craven Award. He attended High Point College. After induction into the U.S. Army, he studied Japanese at the University of Pennsylvania before completing his tour of duty in Japan. Joel was the successful owner of Williams’ Flowers in High Point since 1971. As well as being a talented designer, he provided continual loyalty to his customers and mentoring to his employees. His business closed due to illness in January 2009. He served as the director of the choirs at Archdale United Methodist Church for 30 years and was a member of the ArchdaleTrinity Lions Club. He served on the planning team and later became a member of the first Archdale City Council. Joel was a devout member of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, where he sang in the choir for 36 years. He also served on the missions committee, the worship team and was a ringer in the first bell choir. He enjoyed sports and was an avid Charlotte 49ers fan. He loved music, traveling, and in his later years was blessed to have traveled extensively with Marcia in Europe. He was greatly loved and became a father figure for many. Mr. Williams was married to Marcia Manville on April 26, l972, who survives, of the home. Also surviving children; Gregory Williams and wife, Angela, of Mocksville, and children, Whitney, Gina, Bret and Aaron Williams; Gary Williams, of Raleigh; Wendy Millard and husband, John,

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of Lexington, and their children, Davis and Patrick Millard; Heidi Greeson and husband, Craig, of Mt. Pleasant, and their children, Benjamin and Abby Greeson. Two brothers; Arthur Williams and wife, Pansy, of Jamestown and Max Williams and wife, Sarah, of Oak Island; Sister-in-law and brother-in-law Ken and Margie Gortsema, of Grangeville, Idaho, and Cousin Larry Trogdon and wife, Linda, of High Point. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews The family is especially grateful for the compassion and expertise of his doctors, as well as nursing, custodial, and dietary staffs of High Point Regional Hospital, Hayworth Cancer Center, Abbotts Creek Rehab, Piedmont Crossing, Advanced Home Health Care and Hospice Home of High Point. The family will received friends on Monday, March 29, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Asbury Room at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 1225 Chestnut Drive. Mr. Williams’ casket was opened for viewing in the chapel of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church Monday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. Funeral Services will be conducted today at 3:00 p.m. from the sanctuary of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ashley Crowder Stanley, the Rev. David Howard, the Rev. Barry P. Osborne and the Rev. Joel T. Key officiating. Interment with military rites by the Randolph County Honor Guard will follow in the Floral Garden Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be: John Kidd, Dr. Ken Shull, Dr. Rob DaVanzo, Dr. Frosty Culp, Larry Trogdon, Geoff Shull, Pete Wilson, and Ray Hutchins. Honorary Pallbearers will be Joel’s “breakfast buddies� from Tom’s Place Restaurant. The family has established the Joel E. Williams Memorial Fund through Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 1225 Chestnut Drive, in High Point, to provide flowers and music for areas of need within the church and community. Memorials may also be directed to Hospice of the Piedmont, l80l Westchester Drive, in High Point. Cumby Family Funeral Service on Eastchester is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be sent to www. cumbyfunerals.com. ***

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Weather postpones games BY ZACH KEPLEY

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CALENDAR TODAY BASEBALL N. Forsyth @ Ledford 5 p.m.

Due to a harsh band of storms that produced tornadoes and soaking rains throughout the area, many high school teams were forced to postpone

THS, EDHS to have rivalry week Thomasville and East Davidson are scheduled to play each other in baseball, golf and softball this week in Central Carolina

Conference action. Perhaps the most intriguing matchup is in soccer. Both teams have players that can score up front, but where the game can be won or lost is in the midfield which boasts two of the confer-

ence’s best. East Davidson has Taylor Hallman and the Lady Bulldogs have Alex Solis. Hallman may have the physical advantage, but Solis has a bag of skills. The defenses should have their hands full.

seconds after the timeout and never trailed again, getting contributions from all five starters down the stretch to come away with a 78-71 victory over Baylor to reach college basketball’s promised land. “This is the most excited I’ve been since I’ve been at Duke,” said Duke senior Jon Scheyer, who scored 20 points, including five following the media timeout. “We’ve just worked so hard to get to this point, and in this game we had to work harder than any game this year to get this win. “We had to play our butts off. They were not giving us anything.” The third-seeded Bears (28-8), playing for the South Region championship in front of a mostly partisan crowd of 47,492 at Reliant Stadium, gave the top-seed-

Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson’s early season dominance has his fellow drivers doing a little more than scratching their heads. They’re pounding their race cars and blaming Johnson’s success on the mystical power of luck. Kevin Harvick, who in the early going looks like one of the drivers who could give Johnson a run for his money this season, even went so far as to remark that the No. 48 team appeared to have a golden horseshoe firmly lodged in that part of one’s anatomy “where the sun don’t shine.” The remark came in response to Johnson’s win at Fontana, Calif. in the second race of the season. NASCAR called a caution while Johnson was on pit road, but he beat the pace car back to the scoring line, came out the leader, and won the race. Harvick finished second. A month later to the day, Johnson managed to take control late in the race to earn his first win at Bristol Motor Speedway. Kurt Busch, who finished third, probably had the strongest car that day, but got boxed in and ended up in third place. Busch later commented that of all the possibilities, the car you least want to see coming up behind you is Johnson’s. “I would rather lose to any of the other 41 cars out there than the 48 car,” he said. There is no denying the existence of luck. It’s lurking out there, just waiting for someone to brush against it as they purchase a winning lottery ticket, swish a basketball through the net from half court while blindfolded, or find that missing-presumedgone-for-good diamond earring when emptying the vacuum cleaner. But as any good — or bad — Vegas gambler will tell you, you don’t marry your luck. You can only have a date with her once in a while, and she’s awfully fickle. It seems to be a case not of you choosing luck, but of luck choosing you. Granted, Johnson was absolutely on the receiving end of some good luck at Fontana, but as he pointed out after the race, “... You don’t get lucky and

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SOFTBALL E. Davidson @ Thomasville 4:30 p.m. SOFTBALL N. Forsyth @ Ledford 7 p.m. TENNIS Ledford @ Salisbury 4:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY GOLF CCC Match @ Lexington 4 p.m. SOCCER Thomasville @ E. Davidson 7 p.m. SOCCER N. Davidson @ Ledford 7 p.m. TENNIS Thomasville @ C. Davidson 4 p.m. TENNIS Lexington @ E. Davidson 4 p.m.

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Hamlin dices way to victory BY REID SPENCER NASCARMedia.com MARTINSVILLE, Va.— Mr. Martinsville is dead. Long live Mr. Martinsville! Denny Hamlin plowed through traffic after a green-white-checkeredflag restart Monday to post his second straight victory at Martinsville Speedway, wresting the title “Mr. Martinsville”— at least temporarily— from Jimmie Johnson, who rode a nondescript ninth-place finish to the NASCAR Sprint Cup points lead. On fresh tires, thanks to a pit stop under caution on Lap 493, Hamlin

powered past Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon on Lap 507 of 508 after Kenseth and Gordon traded shots earlier on the same lap. Hamlin cleared Gordon’s Chevrolet through Turns 3 and 4 and finished the race on a cut tire, .670 seconds ahead of teammate Joey Logano, who weaved his way through the melee to give Joe Gibbs Racing a 1-2 finish at the .526-mile short track. “Whose house is this?” Hamlin radioed after taking the checkered flag. “Denny Hamlin’s house,” spotter Curtis

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HOUSTON — When Duke’s players huddled around their coach for the final media timeout facing a onepoint deficit in the quest for their first Final Four, they hung on every word uttered by the man seeking his 11th Final Four. But Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who went to his first Final Four before any of his players were born, decided to leave it up to his players to let their collective effort do the talking. “I said, ‘You guys are fighting now. … Keep fighting, and it will work out well,’ ” Krzyzewski said. “It wasn’t like calling a play or anything. “They did it on their own.” The Blue Devils responded with four points in five

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DUMP From page 7 ed Blue Devils (33-5) everything they could handle. They led 35-32 at halftime and led 61-60 heading to the final TV timeout but would never lead again. Duke junior Nolan Smith — who poured in a career-high 29 points to earn Most Outstanding Player honors — tied it with a free throw but missed the second one. Senior Lance Thomas swooped in and got his hands on the ball, then spotted Smith open in the right corner for a 3pointer that gave Duke a 64-61 lead. Baylor missed a pair of contested shots at the other end, and then Duke senior Brian Zoubek received a pass in the post and immediately kicked it out to Scheyer, who drilled a 3 for a 67-61 lead with 2:36 left. A minute later, Kyle Singler — who had a season-low five points — missed an open 3, but Thomas slammed it home and hit a free throw for a three-point play and a 70-62 edge. “It was my first tip dunk of the year. It came at the perfect time,” said Thomas, who scored seven points and grabbed nine rebounds, including eight of Duke’s 23 offensive rebounds. “It’s an amazing feeling. It’s just hard to put into words, all the hard work we’ve put in. “For my class, it took us four years to get here. It’s an amazing accomplishment.” Smith set the tone early, helping Duke build a 25-18 lead first with a couple of nice drives against Baylor’s zone and then with a couple of 3-pointers as the Devils hit five straight from long range. “The coaches were just saying, ‘Look to attack the gaps, look to attack them,’ ” Smith said. “In a zone they’re not really in a stance, they’re just standing up trying to keep you in front. “If you attack it as if they’re in man-to-man, the coaches said we would get good looks. I really listened to that and was just in attack mode.” Baylor, which last went to the Final Four since 1950 — when there were only eight teams in the tournament — then came out of hibernation. The Bears, with point guard Tweety Carter (12 points) starting to get involved, shooting guard LaceDarius Dunn (22 points) hitting some tough shots and big men Ekpe Udoh (18) and Quincy Acy (12) taking command of the paint, scored 17 of the next 20 points to lead 35-29. Duke freshman Andre Dawkins hit a 3 in the final 30 seconds to stop the bleeding, then Scheyer — 5 for 10 from 3-point range — hit one to open the second half that tied it. From there, neither team led by more than five points until Duke’s finishing, Final Fourworthy push that set up a date with West Virginia on Saturday night in Indianapolis. “I thought they won the first half by probably more than three points,” Krzyzewski said. “But in the second half, I thought we won it by a little bit. “We kept winning it by a little bit until finally I thought we were at our best in the last two minutes.”

BASEBALL Tigers hold off Eagles Randleman got by East Davidson 7-5 on Saturday at East. Justin Mounts had a home run with two RBIs and Tyler Lequire added two RBIs to lead the Golden Eagles. Preston Gammons (0-1) took the loss. East drops to 5-4.

SOFTBALL Lady Panthers win two over weekend Ledford partcipated in the Clash of Champions tournament in Morganton on Saturday, winning two games over a

pair of Pennsylvania schools. In the first game, the Lady Panthers dropped Montour 9-6 with Kristen Murphy collecting the win with 11 strikeouts. Mel Green batted 3-for-3 with an RBI, Jen Stilley had two hits and two RBIs, Sara Persiani two hits and an RBI, Deanna Crayton two hits and Ashley Best two RBIs. In Game 2, Meg Everhart picked up the win as Ledford prevailed 6-2 over McGuffey. Everhart struck out nine. Stilley again had two hits in the second game. Ledford improves to 6-3 for the season.

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HAMLIN From page 7 Markham answered. Gordon finished third after leading the field to the Lap 507 restart. Newman ran fourth and Martin Truex Jr. fifth. The race was delayed by one day because of rain. So was Hamlin’s surgery, originally scheduled for Monday, to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, the result of a pickup basketball injury two months ago. Though Hamlin is eager to get the operation behind him, he savored Monday’s victory, the ninth of his career. “This is probably the most gratifying win I’ve had, simply because we came through adversity so many times, whether it be because of pit road (dropping the jack too soon on an early pit stop) or that dash at the end,” said Hamlin, 29. “We just flat out drove through ’em at the end and got the win. I’m not sure we’ve gotten a win like this before.” A late call for four tires put that win in jeopardy. Hamlin, who led a racehigh 172 laps, had a lead of 2.7 seconds when Jeff Burton blew a tire on Lap 491 and caused the 12th caution of the race. Hamlin and teammate Kyle Busch, who was running second, came to the pits for tires, handing the lead to Gordon.

Hamlin restarted ninth on Lap 497 and quickly made his way toward the front, knocking off two cars with a harrowing three-wide pass in Turn 1. Hamlin was fourth when Busch spun in Turn 3 after contact with Paul Menard’s Ford on Lap 499 and brought out the final caution, with Gordon tantalizingly close to the start-finish line and his first victory since April 2009 at Texas. If NASCAR calls a caution after the leader takes the white flag—which signals the final lap—the field is frozen as it runs. Gordon was within 30 yards of the flag when caution flew for Busch’s wreck. “We were a hundred feet away from getting that white flag, getting the victory,” Gordon said. “So that’s frustrat-

ing. But I shouldn’t be too upset. We were a thirdplace car before that, and we finished third. “I’m not exactly sure what happened on that last restart. I got an OK restart. Spun the tires a little bit, got going. I looked at my mirror, (and the) 17 (Kenseth) was pretty far behind me. … Next thing I know, I got nailed. I don’t know who got into me. I thought it was the 17. If it wasn’t, I apologize to him. I made sure he didn’t win the race down the straightaway.” In fact, after Kenseth bumped Gordon’s Chevrolet in the corner, Gordon rubbed Kenseth’s Ford down the backstretch and sent him high into Turn 3. Kenseth finished 18th after most of the lead-lap cars streamed past him.

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SPORTS LUCKY From page 7 win four championships and 48 races.” Good point. And that’s 50 wins now, by the way. Realistically, you can’t get mad at a guy for getting a lucky break. So what are the other drivers really so worked up about? Why do they seem to feel that no matter how much they do, it isn’t quite enough? Because Jimmie Johnson has managed to accomplish one of the most difficult feats in sports. He has gotten inside his competitors’ heads. He knows it, too. During a NASCAR teleconference on March 23, when asked if his success was taking some of the fun out of the sport, Johnson replied, “No. I’m having a blast ... it’s comical. I’m glad we’re doing this to these guys.” Where I come from, them’s fighting words. When that one pesky gnat starts buzzing around your head, the situation goes from annoying to infuriating in a hurry. Instead of methodically figuring out how to brush it away, you just want to slap it. Right now. Hard. The problem with that system is that usually you end up slapping yourself in the head more than once, while the gnat just continues to taunt you. This creates a whopper of a headache, in more ways than one. Let’s take a quick look at some of the guys currently in the top 12 in driver standings. Matt Kenseth: Champion. Tony Stewart: Champion. Jeff Gordon: Champion. Kurt Busch, the winner at Atlanta earlier this season: Champion. Anyone who thinks these guys have forgotten how to drive, or have lost the desire to win, is just delusional. The question in most people’s mind seems to be how to fix things … assuming, that is, that they’re broken. Personally, I think Kenseth, Stewart, Gordon, Busch and at least a dozen more drivers could win any given race. And I have to believe that no matter how frustrated they feel right now, they think the same thing. I was speaking at a local civic club meeting the other day, and during the questionand-answer period, someone remarked that what NASCAR might be lacking is a true hero versus villain rivalry. Past examples people threw out included Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip ... Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace ... Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon ... you get the idea. There seemed to be a potential rivalry brewing between Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch a couple years back, but it fizzled out. Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski recently made some folks sit up and pay attention, but apparently they’re now back-slapping buddies. I suggested that perhaps the hottest rivalry going right now is Jimmie Johnson versus the field, but some of them fired back with, “No way. He’s too nice.” Oh, man. If Johnson is going to win a high percentage of the races plus be the hero AND the villain at the

same time, that’s a tough titan to topple. But not an impossible one. The Roman philosopher Seneca said, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 team show up each week ready to race, and they have certainly shown that if you give them an opportunity, they’re going to take it. The other guys, AKA the greatest drivers in the world and their TUESDAY EVENING CBS PBS FOX NBC ION CW ABC MNT WLXI

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From page 8 BASKETBALL DCCC offers camp Davidson County Community College will conduct a camp June 28-July 2 for players grades 4-12. The camp will run each day from 8:30 a.m.-noon. The goal of the camp is to give campers instruction in the fundamentals of basketball as well as emphasize team play and sportsmanship. Campers will be divided into groups based on age and ability level. Instruction will be provid-

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The Middle Family Cougar (:01) Ugly Betty (N) Frasier ËNightline ËJimmy Kimmel Live (N) Ë(:06) Extra South Park Simpsons Two Men Two Men The Unit “Inquisition” The Unit Å The Office The Office Payne Payne Law & Order: SVU ’70s Show Lopez Faith Berean Baptist Hour TCT Today Pstr Greg This Is Day ËLife Today Today Your Bible Gospel Just Sayin’ Gaither Gospel Hour TCT Today Healing 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 12 AM 12:30 1 AM 1:30 First 48 Criminal Minds Å Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Billy Billy Billy Dog Dog Dog Dog (5:30) ›› “Volcano” (1997) Å ››› “Traffic” (2000, Crime Drama) Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle. ››› “12 Monkeys” (1995, Science Fiction) Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe. Untamed Untamed and Uncut Animal Nightmares River Monsters Å I Shouldn’t Be Alive River Monsters Å Animal Nightmares I Shouldn’t Be Alive (:00) 106 & Park: BET’s Top 10 Live Crews ËThe Mo’Nique Show ËWendy Williams Show ›› “Brown Sugar” ›› “Brown Sugar” (2002) Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan. Å Matchmkr Matchmaker Millionaire Matchmaker Millionaire Matchmaker Shear Genius (N) Å Shear Genius Å Millionaire Matchmaker Real Housewives Extreme Extreme Makeover Smarter Smarter “Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story” “Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story” Cribs Cribs Mad Money Kudlow Report (Live) American Greed American Greed (N) American Greed Mad Money American Greed American Greed Situation John King, USA (N) ËCampbell Brown (N) ËLarry King Live (N) ËAnderson Cooper 360 (N) (Part 3 of 5) Å ËLarry King Live ËAnderson Cooper 360 Scrubs ËDaily Show ËColbert Chappelle’s Chappelle’s Futurama Futurama South Park Ugly ËDaily Show ËColbert South Park Ugly Futurama ËDaily Show (5:00) House of Representatives ËTonight From Washington ËCapital News Today (5:00) U.S. Senate Coverage ËTonight From Washington ËCapital News Today Cash Cab MythBusters Å MythBusters Å MythBusters (N) Å Is It Possible? (N) Å MythBusters Å MythBusters Å Is It Possible? Å Suite/Deck Wizards Montana Phineas Montana Wizards Suite/Deck Suite Life So Raven Cory K. Possible ›› “Hoot” (2006) Luke Wilson. ‘PG’ Phineas Pretty Wild E! News (N) Daily 10 Fatal Beauty: 15 Most Notorious Women E! Investigates: Bullying ËChelsea E! News ËChelsea Kardashian Kardashian ÊSportsCtr. ÊHigh School Basketball ÊHigh School Basketball ÊNBA Basketball Golden State Warriors at Utah Jazz. (Live) ÊSportsCenter (Live) Å ÊInterruption ÊNFL Live ÊPoker ÊWorld Series ÊSoccer ÊSportsCenter (Live) ÊBaseball ÊNFL Live ÊFastbreak ÊNation 8 Rules ’70s Show ’70s Show ›› “The Pacifier” (2005) Vin Diesel. Å Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club Å Whose? Whose? Paid Prog. Thin 30-Minutes Challenge Ultimate Recipe Bobby Flay Bobby Flay Dinner: Impossible (N) Good Eats Unwrapped Bobby Flay Bobby Flay Dinner: Impossible (:00) ››› “Ice Age” (2002) ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show ›› “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006) Voices of Ray Romano. › “Just My Luck” (2006) Lindsay Lohan. Bret Baier ËFOX Report The O’Reilly Factor (N) ËHannity (N) On the Record The O’Reilly Factor ËHannity On the Record ÊCourt ÊNHL Hockey Carolina Hurricanes at Montreal Canadiens. (Live) ÊPostgame ÊTennis ÊFinal Score ÊFinal Score M1 Fighting Champion ÊFinal Score ÊFinal Score ÊQuest-Card Ê19th Hole (Live) Ê Ê19th Hole ÊTop 10 (N) ÊHaney John Daly Ê19th Hole ÊGolfCentrl ÊQuest-Card ÊTop 10 ÊTop 10 John Daly Ê19th Hole 7th Heaven 7th Heaven Å 7th Heaven Å “Ice Dreams” (2010, Drama) Jessica Cauffiel. Å Golden Golden Golden Golden Cheers Cheers Holmes House House Property Property Holmes on Homes House Hunt House Renovation First Place Holmes on Homes House Hunt House Gangland Gangland Å Gangland Å Gangland Å Gangland “Crip or Die” Battles BC Å (12:01) Gangland Å (:01) Gangland Å Anatomy Grey’s Anatomy Å Grey’s Anatomy Å Will-Grace Will-Grace Frasier Medium Å Medium ›› “Mr. Brooks” (2007) Kevin Costner. Å ËEd Show ËHardball Å ËCountdown-Olbermann ËMaddow Show ËCountdown-Olbermann ËMaddow Show ËHardball Å ËCountdown-Olbermann Teen Cribs True Life South Park South Park 16 and Pregnant Å The Real World Å The Real World (N) Meat The Real World Å Real World (:00) Taboo Repossessed! Repossessed! Outlaw Bikers Breakout (N) Repossessed! Outlaw Bikers Breakout iCarly iCarly iCarly Malcolm Malcolm Hates Chris Hates Chris Lopez Lopez The Nanny The Nanny The Nanny The Nanny Lopez Lopez CSI ÊUFC Unleashed (N) ÊUFC Fight Night (Live) ÊThe Ultimate Fighter (N) ÊThe Ultimate Fighter Deadliest Warrior CSI: Crime Scn House Supernanny Å Messiest Home Messiest Home Clean House Clean House Clean House Clean House Fire & Ice Ghost Hunters Å Ghost Hunters Å Ghost Hunters (N) Å Destination Truth (N) Ghost Hunters Å Destination Truth Å Highlander Å The Office Seinfeld Seinfeld Browns Browns Browns Browns Payne Payne ËLopez Tonight (N) Name Earl Name Earl Sex & City Sex & City (:15) “The Secret of My Success” Primrose ››› “Kitty Foyle” (1940) Ginger Rogers. Å ›› “Tom, Dick and Harry” (1941) ››› “The Major and the Minor” (1942) Say Yes Addicted “Klea” Å Tiger Woods Hoarding: Buried Alive Addicted “Kevin” (N) Hoarding: Buried Alive Addicted “Kevin” Å Tiger Woods Law-Order Bones Å Leverage Å Leverage Å CSI: NY Å ››› “A Time to Kill” (1996) Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson. Å 6TEEN Stoked Johnny T Dude Dude Dude Dude King of Hill King of Hill Family Guy Family Guy To Be Announced Fun Food America’s Worst Driver America’s Worst Driver Breakfast Man/Food Man, Food Man, Food Hamburger Paradise America’s Worst Driver Breakfast Man/Food PoliceVids Cops Å Cops Å Most Daring Most Shocking Most Shocking (N) Forensic Forensic Most Daring Most Shocking All-Family Sanford Sanford Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond First Love First Love Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne ËNotic. Mi Pecado (SS) Hasta que el Dinero Corazón Salvaje (SS) Don Francisco Presenta Impacto Noticiero Un Gancho al Corazón Amar sin Límites (SS) (:00) NCIS NCIS Å NCIS “Road Kill” Å NCIS “Caged” Å In Plain Sight Å In Plain Sight Å › “Good Luck Chuck” (2007) Dane Cook. Å Hip Hop Hip Hop Songs Hip Hop Songs Behind the Music Å Celebrity Fit Club Å Beauty TRANSform Sober House Sober House Becker Funniest Home Videos ››› “RoboCop” (1987) Peter Weller. Å ËWGN News at Nine (N) Scrubs Scrubs South Park South Park Star Trek: Generation 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 12 AM 12:30 1 AM 1:30 (:15) “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” The Pacific “Part One” The Pacific “Part Two” The Pacific “Part Three” Real Time W/ Bill Maher Funny, Die Life, Times › “Dreamcatcher” ‘R’ “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” Zane’s Sex ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (:15) ›› “Meet Dave” (2008) Eddie Murphy. ‘PG’ ›› “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (2009) ‘PG-13’ (:00) ››› “Transsiberian” (2008) Nurse Jack U.S., Tara Jake Johannsen ÊInside NASCAR (iTV) (N) Paul Mooney ÊInside NASCAR (iTV) Stripped: Greg Friedler (:20) “Black Irish” (2006, Drama) ‘R’ “The Telling” (2009) ‘R’ ›› “Disturbing Behavior” (1998) ‘R’ ››› “To Die For” (1995) Nicole Kidman. ‘R’ › “Disaster Movie” (2008) ‘PG-13’

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